Sentence examples for The point at issue from inspiring English sources

The point at issue in the controversy was the future role of the trade unions.

The point at issue is that it is becoming increasingly difficult for BA to press for staff to leave voluntarily.

The point at issue is really a confusion between copying and winnowing: selection is a two-stage process, endlessly repeated.

The point at issue in the debate concerned the nature of Christ's Presence in the bread and wine of the Eucharist.

The point at issue has been whether patients who buy treatments that the NHS will not provide should be deemed to have opted out of the system altogether, and made to pay for all their care.

The point at issue is the pace of change, and the degree to which the Islamic system should be altered.The campaign has been dirtied by the mud that the would-be reformists are slinging at one another.

A reconciliation between Becket and Henry at the end of the same year settled none of the points at issue.

But with Becket out of the way, it proved possible to negotiate most of the points at issue between church and state.

"Log Cabin and Hard Cider" and Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" had been phrases without relevanc to the points at issue even in 1840.

One of the points at issue is whether or not emancipation is destructible; another is whether there is a difference between liberation attained by mere self-knowledge and that attained by knowledge of God.

It is naïve to suppose that the points at issue between, for example, a Thomist and a Materialist can be settled by observation or even by experiment; the facts to which one might appeal in support of his theory may be seen in a very different light by the other, or perhaps be dismissed as simple illusion.